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Dec 2025
No more single point of failure. Use the publisher subscriber pattern.
Nov 2025
Protect your code from changes in external systems - Use the anti-corruption layer
Never miss a payment again. The system design pattern every distributed system needs.
Augment your Intranet with the Power of LLM
The Backend For Frontend Is Not Your API Gateway
Oct 2025
Claim-Check Examples: AWS SQS Extended Client SDK, Azure Serverless (ASB, Blobs, Event Grid, Functions)
Build Your AI Agents Following Copilot 365 Architecture
Sep 2025
Modernize Your Legacy System Incrementally - Follow The Strangler Fig Pattern
Integrate Legacy Systems With Minimal Need for Modification - Use the Messaging Bridge Pattern
Things Are Fine Until You Add a Mobile App. Meet The Backends For Frontends Pattern
The Competing Consumers Pattern
Azure Functions Competing For The Messages In Azure Service Bus
Stop Sending Large Messages Through Your Message Broker - Use The Claim-Check Pattern
Autoscaling Takes Time. Meet Your SLA While Preserving Cost - The Throttling Pattern
Aug 2025
External Configuration System Example: Azure Key Vault
Building Your Own Identity Service Is Hard - Use The Federated Identity Pattern
Federated Identity Example: Azure Active Directory
The Gatekeeper Pattern
Gatekeeper Example: Azure Application Gateway, VNets, ASE
Gatekeeper Example: AWS WAF, NLB, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, VPC, PrivateLink
The Valet Key Pattern
The Static Content Hosting Pattern
The Auto Scaling Pattern
July 2025
Dealing with Huge Data Tables: Millions of Records Slowing Our Business
The Easiest Way to Increase Our Application Throughput
The Cache-aside Pattern
What Can Go Wrong with Traditional Web Application Architecture?
The External Configuration System Pattern
June 2025
Optimizing the services communication with gRPC protocol
Scaling the Bills Payment for a Digital Banking App
Is 3-Tiers Architecture Justified?
Centralized Logging Tradeoffs Analysis
Scale Beyond Web Apps Limited Number of Threads
Why Relational Databases Are NOT Scalable By Default
The Cure to RDBMS Scalability Limitation: Database Replication & CQRS
May 2025
The Only Diagram Your Business People Understand
Software Architecture Trends 2025
Availability, Scalability and Cost: A Fintech Mobile App Story
Is API Gateway Justified?
Async Messaging Tradeoffs Analysis - Prepare Loan Offer Use Case for a Fintech Backend System
April 2025
The Humble Object Pattern
The Gateway Pattern
The Cancer Developer
Don’t Make This Common Software Design Mistake!